Um, what? I'm pretty sure sheep aren't harmed by being sheared. In fact, I'm reasonably certain that they are more likely to be harmed by not being sheared.

wait you're assuming vegans are reasonable people?

Wool is "animal exploitation" or some shit

> study finds that illegal immigrants are drastically over-represented in drug trafficking
Cato institute:
https://twitter.com/CatoInstitute/status/1147388714483638278

also, where do the US drug traffickers get those drugs? 🤔

not to mention those are only the ones that get caught

who would you say is more of an embarrassment to libertarians Cato or the Libertarian party?
Previously I would have said the party but in recent years Cato have been extra strength retarded

hmm one reply raised a good point this study contradicts another one they did that said they commit crimes at a lower rate than citizens

illegal immigrants commit crimes at a higher rate than US citizens since, by definition, they are all criminals simply by their illegal presence on US soil. not all US citizens are criminals

they ignore that little part of course

tweets like theirs make me wish I still had a twitter account, who doesn't love a good ratio?

it's easy to forget. it's not like the word "illegal" is in the descriptor or anything

i'm pretty happy i got banned from twitter. it's a shit hole

"call them undocumented migrants, just so you know" some apparent libertarian

there's fun bits to it, if the company wasn't so fucking shit it'd be a decent platform

some apparent ~~libertarian~~ fgt

like reddit it's cancer but it's great for porn

that used to be true for Tumblr too now they don't even have that

you know what Gary Johnson is still the biggest embarassment, which is impressive he's got tough competition

"Credit where credit's due to Cato, for publishing research that is so devastating to their party line on this topic."

That's adorable, she thinks that Cato or the Libertarian party aren't open borders whackos.

Who’s this person commenting on what she thinks is the LP platform?

Without knowing more than the quote above, looks like she simultaneously believes LP is the “lol, weed man” party and also the shadowy backroom dealers of Nancy McLane’s book where they are crypto-fascists

I found it in the comments of that twitter post

Oh, it's a meme account: https://twitter.com/StagaZigfried/status/1147772124947337216

I'm just not sure if it's an intentional meme account.

@C1PHER
Let's take the worst year (2Ø11);
Roughly 28% are illegal aliens, ¿correct? Ok, let's just round that off to ¼.
If one in four US residents were here illegally in any year (from 1776 on), that would in and of itself be a crisis.
In 2ØØ5, 12.2 million illegals were here (that appears to be the record high; https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/12/5-facts-about-illegal-immigration-in-the-u-s/). If I did the math correctly, that's around 4%. That's 7 times the rate.
I'm. Just. Saying.

"Source: "Pew research center estimates based on augmented U.S. Census Bureau Data"
In other words, butt fuck nothing, the census doesn't count illegals even though Trump wants to, and Pew's estimate based on "augmented" data could literally be anything.

The truth is no one has a fucking clue how many illegals are in the U.S. at any given moment, their margin of error is in the tens of millions.

That Harvard study from February put the likeliest estimate at 25 million. Possibly closer to 30 million.

Dang. Can you link the study? @Bowman151

Or is it behind a paywall

I can't stand paywalls

@Mandatory Carry I'm not trying to minimize the illegal crisis in *any* way but I am not quite following your numbers there. The 1/4 number appears to be illegals as a percentage of drug traffickers, not general population. The 12.2 million illegals would, as you say, make up about 4% of the population, so that would be 1 in 25 of the general population, not 1 in 4.

That said if the number is actually *30 million* as some studies suggest, that is closer to 1 in 10 people.

As far as I'm concerned *either* of those numbers is far too high. But 10% is a truly horrifying number. That is an imminent-overthrow-of-the-native-population kind of number.

That's not to mention that illegals are really only part of the problem. I'd argue that our *legal* immigration rate is also far too high. Something like like *1 in 4* people living in the US were not born here. I've heard 80 million thrown around before. That is not sustainable. It is mass demographic replacement and it will mean a wholesale washing out of the native born culture if it is not reversed and soon.

Dang that's really high

The coastal cities where half the population lives are absolutely swarming with foreigners, Sal.

Not to mention the desert Southwest which has huge quantities of Mexican nationals.

https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=bkmk

According to this 2016 Census table the official estimate is closer to 45,000,000. But the Census is suspected to vastly underreport illegals so take that for what you will.

80M might be high. But I think 45M is low. Say there are 20M uncounted illegals and you'd get 65M, which is 1 in 5

I don't know why you guys hate brown people so much.

Some numbers edited above btw